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Thomas Jefferson and the Science of Republican Government: A Political Biography of Notes on the State of Virginia
Dustin Gish
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Description for Thomas Jefferson and the Science of Republican Government: A Political Biography of Notes on the State of Virginia
hardcover. This analysis of Thomas Jefferson's only published work demonstrates the political aspirations behind its composition, publication and dissemination. Num Pages: 346 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBWF; JPA; JPF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
This biography of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, his only published book, challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating its core political thought as well as the political aspirations behind its composition, publication and initial dissemination. Building upon a close reading of the book's contents, Jefferson's correspondence and the first comprehensive examination of both its composition and publication history, the authors argue that Jefferson intended his Notes to be read by a wide audience, especially in America, in order to help shape constitutional debates in the critical period of the 1780s. Jefferson, through his determined publication and distribution of ... Read more
This biography of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, his only published book, challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating its core political thought as well as the political aspirations behind its composition, publication and initial dissemination. Building upon a close reading of the book's contents, Jefferson's correspondence and the first comprehensive examination of both its composition and publication history, the authors argue that Jefferson intended his Notes to be read by a wide audience, especially in America, in order to help shape constitutional debates in the critical period of the 1780s. Jefferson, through his determined publication and distribution of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107157361
SKU
V9781107157361
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Ref
99-14
About Dustin Gish
Dustin Gish is the contributing co-editor of The Quest for Excellence: Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Core Texts (2016), Shakespeare and the Body Politic (2013) and Souls With Longing: Representations of Honor and Love in Shakespeare (2011). He is Instructional Faculty in the Honors College at the University of Houston. He is also a contributing co-editors of Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience ... Read more
Reviews for Thomas Jefferson and the Science of Republican Government: A Political Biography of Notes on the State of Virginia
'Gish and Klinghard make their case thoroughly, drawing on in-depth knowledge of the scholarship on Notes, Enlightenment science and scientific polemics, and the political history of the United States in the years they say constitute the book's political biography. The benefit of their serious, thoughtful, imaginative scholarship becomes evident in the culminating section on Jefferson and Madison, perhaps the most ... Read more